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Arnab Goswami
Editor-in-chief, Times Now
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With more than a decade in television
news, Arnab leads the editorial, programming and
production team at TIMES NOW. A well known reporter
and news anchor, Arnab brings with him on-hands
experience from the field and the newsdesk. Winner
of the Asian Television Awards in the Best News
anchor category, Arnab’s priority is establishing
a direct connect with TIMES NOW viewers.
Arnab’s interests span politics, policy,
sports, business, urban trends and entertainment.
Known to be non-partisan in his approach to news
and newsmakers, Arnab leads a team that has believes
in bringing a new culture of professionalism,
speed and objectivity in the broadcast news space.
A space where – in line with the TIMES NOW
philosophy -- every news story is assessed for
its ability to inform and involve the audience,
and make them feel the news.
Arnab is a postgraduate from Oxford University,
a former visiting fellow at Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge and has done a course in Public Affairs
reporting from the Washington School of Politics
and Journalism. He authored his first book, “Combating
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Jehangir S. Pocha
Editor, BusinessWorld |
Jehangir S Pocha is the Editor of Businessworld, India’s best selling business magazine. He joined the magazine as an Editor in the year 2007.
Businessworld has grown to become the largest selling business magazine in India and the largest selling English business magazine in Asia, with a circulation of over 130,000 a week.
Before joining Businessworld, Jehangir had worked as a Foreign Correspondent and has three years experience as Beijing-based Asia correspondent for leading U.S. and Indian publications, such as The Boston Globe and Businessworld. Also published articles on business, technology and politics for leading newspapers and magazines and journals in the U.S. and Asia.
Jehangir was China/Asia correspondent for In These Times. He also contributed to The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Review, Christian Science Monitor, New Perspectives Quarterly, St. Petersburg Times, Baltimore Sun and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
To add further, he has Nine years of global management experience. Established overseas operations for U.S.-based companies in Europe and Asia, and led the marketing function.
Jehangir holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA. His other educational qualifications include Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Economics from the University of Bombay, India.
Jehangir is also President of AIESEC (the world’s largest international student organization) in India. Dual US and Indian citizen with permanent residency in Singapore.
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Priya Ramani
Editor, Mint's National Features
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Priya Ramani is presently Mint's National Features Editor and Head of Lounge, Mint's Saturday edition. Priya is a graduate from Temple University. She was the editor of Cosmopolitan in India, Deputy Editor of Elle India and has also worked at Reuters.. |
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Suhel Seth
Managing Partner, Counselage India
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Suhel Seth is the Managing Partner of Counselage India and founder of
Equus.
Counselage is India's only strategic brand management and marketing
consultancy focused towards creating over-arching corporate reputation
and respect.
Suhel has several passions: he is a regular speaker at industry meets.
Suhel also writes provocative columns in The Asian Age, Business India,
The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express on current affairs and the
social landscape of India. Suhel has co-authored two books on Calcutta
with Khushwant Singh and R K Laxman. Suhel was the Chairman
of the Marketing Summits for 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Suhel sits on the global advisory board of British Airways and on the
regional boards of several companies. Suhel is an alumnus of the AMP of Harvard Business School as also member
of the Harvard Business School Consultants Club and is active on the
Delhi theatre scene and has acted in several plays and films (by
Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen) as also has represented India at the
University of Oxford in Debating. He is also the Founder of both the
Calcutta and the Delhi Debating Society and Concern for Delhi. Suhel has
also been a past Rotary International Scholar as well as the Founder of
the Rotaract and Interact Clubs in Calcutta.
Suhel is on the Board of Advisors of Deepalaya and Neemrana Foundation.
Suhel has also been nominated as a Trustee on the India Brand Equity
Fund: the apex body responsible for creating a vibrant Brand India.
Suhel is the Chairman of the National Marketing Committee of CII for
2007-08.
Suhel is a bachelor and lives in Delhi. |
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MODERATOR
Sonny Abraham
Editor-in-chief, Times Now
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Sonny Abraham is the Editor of UNI (United News of India), one of the main news agencies in India with 24-hour wire services in English, Hindi and Urdu as well as Photo and Graphics services.
UNI's services reach hundreds of subscribers across India, including newspapers, television and radio stations and websites as well as government and corporate offices.
He started his career as a stringer for the Times of India in Baroda, Gujarat, while still a student in college.
He joined UNI in December, 1979, and worked as its Baroda bureau chief from 1980 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993, he worked for UNI in Delhi, where he covered the Finance and External Affairs ministries.
He was posted from March, 1993 to November, 1999 as UNI's Gulf and Middle East Bureau chief based in Dubai. Appointed as the Editor of UNI in July, 2003.
During nearly three decades as a journalist, he has covered riots, floods, cyclones, elections, sports, Parliament, multilateral events such as NAM, OIC, GCC, IBSA, ASEAN, SAARC and the East Asia summits, Test and one-day cricket, the Asian Games, World Cup Hockey, World Table Tennis and so on.
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PRIVATE EQUITY-
PANEL DISCUSSION
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Sandeep Singhal
MD, Sequoia Capital India
Sandeep Singhal is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital India, Sandeep was with WestBridge Capital Partners. Earlier, Sandeep worked at BCG andHindustan Lever Limited (“HLL”). Sandeep serves on the board of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Sandeep received an MBA with distinction from IIM Ahmedabad, an MS in molecular simulation from the University of Illinois, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.
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Shankar Narayanan
MD, Carlyle PE India
Shankar Narayanan, an XLRI gold medalist, is a
Managing Director of Carlyle, responsible for
leading growth capital investments in India. Prior
to joining Carlyle, Mr. Narayanan has worked as
MD and CEO, Hathway Investments in Mumbai, and
as Director with Deutsche Bank Capital Partners.
He has been associated with a number of prominent
private equity investments in India, including
Johnson Tiles, Exide Industries, Tata Infomedia,
and AFL Limited.
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Aru Arumugam
Jardine Rothschild Asia Capital
Aru has been in the Indian private equity and
investment banking industries for over a dozen
years now. He has investing experience across
multiple sectors - engineering and construction,
ship building, autocomponents, retail services,
telecom, travel services, etc. In investment banking
he has exerience both in equity capital markets
and M&A advisory. He is an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad,
and graduated from BITS, Pilani. He is also a
Chevening scholar from the London School of Economics.
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Sri Rajan
Partner, Bain & Company
An MBA in Strategy and Multinational
management and a Palmer Scholar from the Wharton
School, Sri Rajan is a partner in Bain & Company's
New Delhi office. He is the head of the India
Private Equity Practice and is also a part of
the firm's Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Practice.
His work with private equity funds includes due
diligence and value creation through the formulation
and implementation of growth strategies and cost
realization programs
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DISTINGUISHED
PERSONALITIES
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Mohandas Pai
T. V. Mohandas Pai is a Member of the Board and Head – Administration, Human Resources and Education & Research at Infosys. Mr. Pai joined Infosys in 1994 and has served as a Member of the Board since May 2000. He served as the Chief Financial Officer from 1994 to 2006, and then voluntarily stepped down as the CFO to lead efforts in the areas of Human Resources and Education & Research.
Mr. Pai has been the driving force behind the Campus Connect program, directed toward creating large-scale, systemic change in engineering education. This program aims to help academia improve its output by producing
industry ready engineering graduates with better knowledge and capability. The program is also of strategic importance to Infosys, as the company recruits large numbers of engineering graduates to fuel its growth. Mr. Pai has also played a leadership role in Infosys' initiatives to help several state governments in their quest for providing greater access to quality education.
Mr. Pai played a key role in the listing of Infosys on NASDAQ and its sponsored secondary offering of American Depositary Shares, both firsts for an India-registered company. He was voted ‘CFO of the Year’ in 2001 by IMA India and won the “Best CFO in India” award from Finance Asia in 2002, and “Best Chief Financial Officer in India” in the AsiaMoney Best Managed Companies Poll 2004.
Mr. Pai has been actively working with regulators to improve the business ecosystem. He was a member of the Kelkar Committee constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, for reforming direct taxes, and a member of the Non-Resident Taxation Committee, the high powered committee on e-commerce and taxation.
He is currently a member of the SEBI Accounting Standards Sub-committee and the Empowered Committee for setting up the Tax Information Network of the Indian Government. Mr. Pai is a trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Public Enterprise in Hyderabad, India.
Mr. Pai has a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, and a bachelor’s degree in Law from Bangalore University. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA).
Mohan has a keen interest in primary education and social development activities. He is currently working with Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore on a mid-day meal program to feed over 830,000 children in government schools in Bangalore rural and urban areas, in Mathura, Hubli, Jaipur etc, with an aim to feed 1,000,000 children daily by 2010.
Mr. Pai will be delivering the keynote address at Vista 2007
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Mahesh Murthy
Entrepreneur, Early-stage investor, Marketer-
Mahesh Murthy plays his various roles to perfection.
Currently, he is Managing Partner at Seedfund,
Founder & CEO at Pinstorm, Founder &
Principal at Passionfund, Mahesh Murthy has
22 years of marketing and communications experience
of which over 10 years are in online marketing.
With his wide experience and tremendous exposure
to the world of business- from start-ups to
industry giants, he is all set to preside over
Bzzwings, Vista's B-plan contest.
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